Drew Sauter invented and patented induction based fluidics(IBF). It is the fastest, most efficient (100%) technique for launching samples into LC/ESI/MS systems and for LC/MALDI. IBF can also be used for parallel dispensing and more including LO 3D printing. Drew founded nanoLiter LLC and has collaborated with over fifty groups worldwide on IBF. Sciex offered to license the technology and devices have been sold to US Army, Genentech, Biogen Idec, Amgen, NIH, NIST, U’s of CA,WI, ILL and 50 other corporations and other organizations. America’s greatest mass spectroscopist has called our ability to “shoot” 100% of cellular liquids using IBF into ANY ESI, “exciting,” and IBF as “great.”

Prior to this work, Drew developed MS methods and technology in support of defense, energy and environmental projects at MRI. He developed the core GC/MS methods used environmentally across the USA since the 70's. He was on the team that built the first national database of pollutants from 20,000 data files of USA rivers publishing on signal processing, pattern recognition and database building. Later he purchased Dr. Robert Finnigan's first TSQ and did the first LC/MS/MS HTS in the 80's, hands on. He directed MS/MS R&D with Hunt and Shabanowitz and directed seminal funding to Dr. S. Houk, the inventor of ICP/MS. He acquired funding for Extrel and Dr. Willoughby to develop new LC/MS technology that was purchased by Waters, that being their entree' into MS.

As a consultant, he was hired by USDOJ and played a key role in winning a nine-figure litigation against 20 of the 40 largest firms in the USA using applied multivariate statistics and pattern recognition. For WMI, he developed an economic model for a $20M lab which paid for itself in under three years as he predicted. In the 90's he won a $M contract at Los Alamos, for building a data management systems for 34 instrumental chemistry techniques that also addressed data integrity.

Then, after reading ca. 600 papers on ESI over a two year period, he invented and patented IBF, a technique that improves MALDI and allows for 100% of liquids to be "shot" into any ESI or LC/ESI. This technology he predicts will replace the spray part of ESI. It is IBF that is at the core of this course.

Drew founded nanoLiter LLC and nanoliter.com and sells devices and licenses technology. He has worked with firms on four continents, and been hired as a consultant by most MS firms for business issues of MS to LC/MALDI. He has also been hired as an expert in MS by seven different branches of the US government, and he has given numerous invited presentations and written twelve patents, hundreds of reports, peer review and other papers, our most recent ten being addressed in this course.He holds an MS degree from Marquette and a BS degree from Duquesne University both in chemistry.